# FM rated 1049

**URL:** <https://forum.uschess.org/t/fm-rated-1049/1663>\
**Category:** Running Chess Tournaments\
**Created:** [December 13, 2006, 4:00am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/fm-rated-1049/1663 "2006-12-13T04:00:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Steve\_Immitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Steve\_Immitt](https://forum.uschess.org/u/Steve_Immitt)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 4:00am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/fm-rated-1049/1663/1 "2006-12-13T04:00:00Z")

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This is an interesting one: [uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?12787166](http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?12787166)  
[fide.com/ratings/card.phtml?event=1503707](http://www.fide.com/ratings/card.phtml?event=1503707)

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Maybe there is something to the "no relationship between USCF and FIDE ratings" idea!?

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**Author:** ![ppwchess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b19c9b/32.png) [@ppwchess](https://forum.uschess.org/u/ppwchess)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 4:13am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/fm-rated-1049/1663/2 "2006-12-13T04:13:19Z")

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I guess Goichberg won’t let him enter the Under 1200 section at the World Open next year.

Maybe the next time I get grief for losing to a 1050 I can tell detractors he might be an FM from another country.

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**Author:** ![Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Smith](https://forum.uschess.org/u/Smith)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 4:26am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/fm-rated-1049/1663/3 "2006-12-13T04:26:29Z")

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> [@Steve\_Immitt](#):
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> This is an interesting one: [uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?12787166](http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?12787166)  
> [fide.com/ratings/card.phtml?event=1503707](http://www.fide.com/ratings/card.phtml?event=1503707)
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> Maybe there is something to the "no relationship between USCF and FIDE ratings" idea!?
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His last USCF game was 6.5 years ago. Looking at his FIDE card he was born in 1990 and would have been 9 or 10 then. A kid going up 1300 points in 6.5 years isn’t that weird is it?

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**Author:** ![nolan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.uschess.org/nolan/32/174_2.png) [@nolan](https://forum.uschess.org/u/nolan)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 4:38am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/fm-rated-1049/1663/4 "2006-12-13T04:38:53Z")

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I can’t tell from the data available if this is a case of mistaken identity or not (though that seems likely), so I’m referring it to Walter Brown to investigate further.

We had a case last year of a foreign player who had a USCF rating of around 1800 from games back in 1999 or 2000 but who is now a GM. (In that case it was definitely the same person.)

The event he played in during 2005 was initiallly rated using his old (and terribly out-of-date) USCF rating, but afterwards the office reinitialized his rating based on his current FIDE rating. It made a big difference for the players he faced in that event.

I think this illustrates a flaw in the USCF’s ‘Once rated always rated’ policy.

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.uschess.org/system/32/2_2.png) [@system](https://forum.uschess.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 8:39am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/fm-rated-1049/1663/5 "2024-04-22T08:39:26Z")

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